BnZ your simply stunning me here. I'll remember this thread when your calling for the field-guns to be perked.
WTF? When WWs first came out I was dead set against perking them because I saw they would make the "sport" of shooting airplanes on the runway less viable. Now that they are an ubiquitous town-dropping and mobile ack-dragging option that has made hangar queens out of the Ostwind and M-16, I'm not quite so sure I was right. But the fact remains that I like what they accomplish DEFENSIVELY and thus if they were perked to balance perking the 37MM Il2 package, I'd like numerous field guns of similar ease of use installed at bases.
Yesterday the Nits shot my IL-2s so fulla holes trying to protect 155 in LWO I ran out of bubblgum trying to keep them airborne, "and I was thinking about this thread as I was spiraling down". On a good flight maybe I was looking at only a 3 to 1 disadvantage. I must have been shot on the runway 3 times, shot by tank guns another 3 "fighters forced me low and flat". If you have any kind of advantage in the fight the chances are your going to be able to keep the Storm birds down. Oh, and if your in a fighter? If you have an advantage? The chances are you'll be able to survive. The IL-2 is simply not a "dominating" airplane.
And this war story is relevant how? I never said the Il-2 is a fighter, just incredibly dominant in its a2g mission relative other options.
The fact also remains that if there is any fighter opposition at all, friendly air units usually cannot be bothered to make themselves vulnerable by getting low and slow enough to kill the incredibly tough and half-way nimble Il-2s.
If however, your in a tank with no air or friendly flak around? The odds are your not going to make it. All perking the IL-2 would accomplish anyways is cut down on upping them during base defense. Unlike real life you mostly run into AH Storm birds while they are defending. Taking bases with horde tactics is so easy already. Why make it easier?
I up 5 point Shermans into situations where I ain't gonna make it all the time. In fact I ditch the things rather than drive a long way quite a bit. So yeah, they'd still see SOME base defense use.
I will say this again, since you are not comprehending...the a2g war almost consists of Il2 vs. WW at this point. I think perhaps a little more variety would be preferable. I don't know why you mention base taking or horde tactics since I support numerous *substantive* options to make it less easy to horde-capture a base, note the dozen or so times I've mentioned in this thread how asinine it is that one suicide 190 can easily disable bombs for an entire base. I also think DAR bars should reach to the ground to defuse incessant NOE sneaks, hangars should be hard enough that a single jabo can't easily take them out, perhaps a second VH hangar should be added, and I think fields could use more powerful and durable manned guns useful against enemy heavy armor.
